LOOKING BACK

 The Tri-County Country Club goes back many years as a gathering place for local golfers and has served as a venue for several social events as well.

When prospective industries looked to our area, we were always proud to point to the club as an incentive for new industry to consider a move to our community.

Now, when the economy is struggling the Tri-County Country Club finds itself struggling as well.

Several people have stepped up in an effort to prevent the community from losing yet another landmark, but more is necessary.

The club has instituted a membership drive, which will offer the balance of 2010, September-December and all of 2011 at a discounted rate, which would basically be the annual membership fee minus approximately $300 for 16 months membership fee.

There are special corporate rates available as well and local companies certainly should explore this opportunity, as should individuals.

If you are interested, please contact the Tri-County Country Club or one of its members; it is a win, win situation.

I do not know that that I have been more proud of a Corbin Redhound football team that lost a game by such a large margin (42-10), as did the Redhounds to Boyle County Saturday evening.

The Rebels of Boyle County rolled onto Campbell Field 75 players strong and led by 29 seniors. The Rebels were led by Mr. Football favorite, Lamar Dawson at 6’4” and 240 pounds, and he was the real deal.

The Redhounds never blinked, and never backed down an inch. There were so many kids that played so hard. I hope I don’t fail to recognize each of them.

Josh Jewell was fantastic in his ability to catch the ball in traffic and bounced right up despite being blasted by large Rebels defenders time and time again.

Josh’s cousin Matthew Taylor played his heart out. Mitchell Frederick gave an outstanding effort. The two young men I mentioned last week, Josh Coppock and Wes Tipton continued their all-out efforts; Hunter Grubb caught my attention with his play. Grant Grigsby and Tony Bernardo were very active, and of course the three team leaders Matthew Taylor, Brady Foley and Saxton Okuma were all over the field.

The coaching staff had the Redhounds thoroughly prepared and made all the right calls and surprised the Rebels by recovering the opening on-side kick and had Mitchell Frederick open down the sideline on the first play from scrimmage for what would have been a quick strike for the Redhounds. A Boyle County defender was able to flick the ball away at the last instant.

Roman Mitchell played well in the first half at quarterback and Ty Cobb gave the Redhounds a boost in the third quarter.

All in all, the Redhounds gained from the experience of playing against a large physical team that played at a greater speed than the ‘Hounds had seen before.

I doubt we will play a better team than Boyle County the rest of the 2010 season, and I know we will not play a team with more heart than the Corbin Redhounds.

What about those Kentucky Wildcats? Well, don’t get too excited too fast. Louisville is not that good.

Mike Hartline played flawless for the ‘Cats at quarterback and they played solid on defense, but they looked like the same old 6-6, 7-5 Wildcats to me.

Speculation runs rampant concerning change in Kentucky High School’s football classification for next year. Best guess is that Corbin will move up to 3A while Bell County drops to 3A and will force a game or maybe two between the former rivals only now with everything on the line.